Pile fabric



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' PILE FABRIC Filed June 15, 1934 INVENTOR WITNESSES 5 5 59 W WV ATTORN .s

Patented Jan. I, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PILE FABRIC Application June 15, 1934, Serial No. 130,797 I 2 Claims.

This invention relates to pile fabric and has for an object to provide an improved construction of fabric wherein a desirable pile with a proper backing is provided and, in addition, a float of 5 Cellophane or analogous material is presented and positioned to reflect light to a certain extent.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a pile fabric with a Cellophane float arranged, with most of the Cellophane yarn arranged on'the upper face of the fabric between rows of tufts, the Cellophane yarn being arranged to partly be exposed at all times in order to give a desired appearance to the finished fabric. A further object is to provide a pile fabric of any desired weave with a Cellophane float arranged between certain rows of the pile tufts to act in the double capacity of a warp yarn and as an ornamental float partly covered by the pile.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a longitudinal Vertical sectional view through a short section of double pile fabric before it has been cut;

Figure 2 is a sectional view through Figure 1 on the line 22, the various yarns being spread apart for the purpose of illustration;

Figure 3 is a top plan view of a small sample of the fabric shown in Figures 1 and 2, with part of the pile cutaway and the Cellophane float emphasized.

In the manufacture of fabric embodying the present invention the weave, as illustratedparticularly in Figure 1, may be used, or other weaves, without departing from the spirit of the invention, provided the special warp floats 1 and 2 are positioned as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. By arranging the Cellophane floats 1 and 2 as illustrated, they will form part of the background of the pile fabric and will present a desired appearance as illustrated in Fig. 3. It will be evident that not only may changes in the weave be made, but, if desired, more strands of Cellophane yarn may be used without departing from the spirit of the invention.

As illustrated in Fig. 1 the numeral 3 indicates the upper backing, and 4 the lower backing. The upper backing 3 is formed with binder warp yarns 5 and 6, while the lower backing 4 is formed with binder warp yarns 'l and 8. These warp yarns form the upper and lower backing together with the upper and lower weft yarns 9 and 10. In addition, the upper backing is provided with a third warp yarn or float, indicated by the numeral 1, while the lower backing is similarly provided with a float yarn 2 which is a warp binder yarn but made from Cellophane and looped under one weft yarn 10, then over three weft yarns, then under the next one, and then over the next three, and so on. The upper backing is formed in a similar manner and the upper and lower backings are connected by the pile yarns 11 and 12, which when cut along the line 22 will form piles of tufts, as they are sometimes called. Without the Cellophane floats 1 and 2 the upper and lower backings with their pile yarns would form desired pile fabric having a substantially uniform pile over the entire surface. However, by using the flat Cellophane yarns 1 and 2 certain of the tufts of the pile fabric are held apart to a small extent and consequently the Cellophane yarns may be readily seen either in their entirety or partly. As shown in Fig. 3 the Cellophane floats are seen in their entirety except when passing under the weft yarns, but in many pieces of fabric the pile overlies more or less the Cellophane yarns so that only small splotches thereof will be seen which reflect the light in a desirable manner when the Cellophane is white, silver or some other light color. This gives a sparkling effect to the entire fabric and presents a pile fabric of a very pleasing appearance.

While round Cellophane yarns may be used for the floats, flat yarns are preferable particularly when made of a width sufficient to permit them to be seen to a greater or lesser extent, notwithstanding the fact that some of the pile will overlie the yarn.

Itwill also be evident that the floats can extend over more than three weft yarns, though ordinarily this is most desirable, and the passing under of one weft yarn is also the most desirable as it hides the least amount of the Cellophane. However, under some circumstances the floats might be looped under two weft yarns and then over two where a less sparkling effect is desired;

I claim:

1. A woven pile fabric having a backing, a pile yarn and Cellophane float yarns spaced apart suficiently to present a plurality of rows of tufts of'piles between each float, the floats being noticeable when looking at the pile.

2. A woven pile fabric having a backing consisting of two binder warp yarns with weft yarns bound singly in each shed by the binder warp yarns, a pile yarn tied through the backing of alternate weft yarns, and a Cellophane binder warp yarn passing alternately under one and overthree weft yarns in the sets to tie in regular sequence two loops of pile yarn separated by weft yarns to the respective weft yarns in the sets throughout the fabric.

1 FREDERICK W. STOLZENBERG. 

